| Islamic Jihad will "continue its resistance" against Israeli occupation, its leader Ramadan Abdullah Shalah vowed in a speech in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. He nevertheless assured that his movement would not retaliate to the crackdown on Islamist militants by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. "We will not go down the slippery slope of the internal conflict, Palestinian blood is for us a red line even if our blood is boiling," he said. |